PADI Ice Diver Course Details

If the spirit of adventure and unusual, challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under the ice. Ice diving opens a new and different view of familiar dive sites. During the PADI Ice Diver course, you dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialities recreational diving offers. If you like fun, people and a challenge, you’ll love the PADI Ice Diver Specialty course.

  • Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 18 years old
  • Learn to plan and organize ice dives
  • Practice the procedures and techniques for handling the problems and hazards of ice diving
  • Site selection, preparation and hole-cutting procedures
  • Use specialized ice diving equipment, safety lines, signals, communications, line tending and line-securing techniques
  • Learn about the effects of cold, emergency procedures and safety-diver procedures
  • Explore the unique aquascape found only under ice
  • Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

For more information on becoming a PADI Ice Diver, please contact your local PADI Dive Center or Resort or explore more course options below.
 

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